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The Week reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden already racked up three Senate endorsements within an hour of entering the 2020 race. Biden’s long-awaited announcement that he is running for president in 2020 was quickly followed by an endorsement by Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), whose Senate seat was formerly held by Biden. Coons in a statement says that Biden “doesn’t …

“On April 1, 2013, Pennsylvania’s senior United States Senator, Robert Casey issued a statement supporting marriage equality for same-sex couples and asserting his belief that the Defense of Marriage Act should be repealed.  In so doing, Senator Casey has unfortunately and disappointingly set aside the Catholic belief and teaching that the sacrament of marriage, rooted in the natural law, is …

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), who campaigned as a conservative Democrat, has endorsed marriage equality. “After much deliberation and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed,” Casey said in a statement exclusively first released to Philadelphia Gay News on Monday afternoon. Casey previously backed …